tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post116626958649499301..comments2016-12-09T17:46:41.007-05:00Comments on ICEUFT Blog: 7,637 Reasons to Fight OnJeff Kaufmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728874415155394751noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1167882141049483502007-01-03T22:42:00.001-05:002007-01-03T22:42:00.001-05:00Including this blog.Including this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1167882125700533562007-01-03T22:42:00.000-05:002007-01-03T22:42:00.000-05:00Obviously, you beleive everything you read in the ...Obviously, you beleive everything you read in the paper or on the internet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1167795250788337612007-01-02T22:34:00.000-05:002007-01-02T22:34:00.000-05:00Go ICE!Go ICE!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166914783456455672006-12-23T17:59:00.000-05:002006-12-23T17:59:00.000-05:00I understand James Eterno wrote this piece. I thi...I understand James Eterno wrote this piece. I think it's eloquent, principled, and brave.<BR/><BR/>When things don't work out, you pick yourself up and start over again. You don't lay down and die.<BR/><BR/>I won't abandon my principles, and I won't teach my kid (or my students) to do so either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166578894299014862006-12-19T20:41:00.000-05:002006-12-19T20:41:00.000-05:00Probably that toad, Michael Mendel.Probably that toad, Michael Mendel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166576162993473222006-12-19T19:56:00.000-05:002006-12-19T19:56:00.000-05:00Of course Randi picks her replacement just as all ...Of course Randi picks her replacement just as all UFT leaders do. They get elected and then leave. But Randi doesn't really have to leave. Shanker did the AFT and UFT for many years. All Randi has to do is fly into New York a few times a month.<BR/>But if she leaves she has probably selected her replacement. Just watch who gets time trying to run the Delegate Assembly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166571053946285272006-12-19T18:30:00.000-05:002006-12-19T18:30:00.000-05:00Randi always had her sites on this--old news.The p...Randi always had her sites on this--old news.<BR/><BR/>The problem is who will replace her here? Does she select her replacement?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166536364322660362006-12-19T08:52:00.000-05:002006-12-19T08:52:00.000-05:00Washington May Be in Future of Teachers Chief Rand...Washington May Be in Future of Teachers Chief Randi Weingarten<BR/><BR/>By SARAH GARLAND<BR/>Staff Reporter of the Sun<BR/>December 18, 2006<BR/><BR/>It has been a good year for the president of the city teachers union — so good that education watchers say Randi Weingarten may soon be leaving New York to become the president of the national teachers union.<BR/><BR/>After negotiating a rarity — an early contract with no givebacks and significant raises for teachers, who overwhelmingly approved it last week — Ms. Weingarten will probably sail to reelection this spring as president of the city union, the United Federation of Teachers. Experts say she may be campaigning locally with an eye on running to replace the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Edward McElroy, in that union's 2008 election.<BR/><BR/>"She's been groomed for this from the very beginning," a researcher who runs the Education Intelligence Agency, Michael Antonucci, said. "He's old and Randi is young — it's just a matter of time. When he decides to step down, she'll step up."<BR/><BR/>Speculation that she might be headed to Washington, D.C., to lead the national union first began in 2004, after the death of Sandra Feldman, a former president of the UFT whom Ms. Weingarten replaced in 1998. After leaving the UFT, Feldman led the national union until a year before her death, and some people thought Ms. Weingarten would move immediately to replace her.<BR/><BR/>"She's the natural heir-apparent for the national union," an education writer who has written a book about school unions and bureaucracies, Joe Williams, said. "It could have been Randi then … that seat is just sort of waiting there for her."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166503637810161502006-12-18T23:47:00.000-05:002006-12-18T23:47:00.000-05:00Good idea about a sports blog.Think the Knicks wil...Good idea about a sports blog.<BR/>Think the Knicks will have to work the extra 37 and a half minutes? I bet all those suspensions land them in the rubber room.Normnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166492798721771022006-12-18T20:46:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:46:00.000-05:00Don't give up because things don't look too wonder...Don't give up because things don't look too wonderful now. It's always darkest before the dawn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166492003616095042006-12-18T20:33:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:33:00.000-05:0094% voted for the 2002 contract and within months ...94% voted for the 2002 contract and within months they hated it. This contract too will age like cheese, no doubt about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166411572428086612006-12-17T22:12:00.000-05:002006-12-17T22:12:00.000-05:00You're clutching at straws. People will be complai...You're clutching at straws. People will be complaining about the contract? 90% of the membership endorsed it. People are pleased with the raises and the provisions. You guys are finished. Might as well wrap it up. Maybe you can make this into a sports blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166406500841135812006-12-17T20:48:00.000-05:002006-12-17T20:48:00.000-05:00People will be complaining about the contract. IC...People will be complaining about the contract. ICE is going in the right direction by getting moving toward the election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166404074045797002006-12-17T20:07:00.000-05:002006-12-17T20:07:00.000-05:00One of "New York's Brightest" who teaches in my sc...One of "New York's Brightest" who teaches in my school thought we were supposed to get $7,500. And you wonder why we accept one bad contract after another. God help us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166373754714884052006-12-17T11:42:00.000-05:002006-12-17T11:42:00.000-05:00Here is something Unity is failing at since the la...Here is something Unity is failing at since the last contract gives control of 3rd step grievance to the Doe...<BR/><BR/>Remember the days when grievances hearings and answers had a specific due date? Those days are gone and the DoE can spin their wheels and Unity can't do a thing about it because they are the ones who allowed it.<BR/><BR/>There is a school in D15K where 2 teachers are only given 2-20 minute preps a day instead of 1-45-minutes because of scheduling conflicts using the 37.5 minutes during school time. How fair is this??<BR/>The Unity special reps are telling the teachers to all go against the principal. But the teachers told Unity just because they can't get the job done, don't put it on us!!<BR/>Do what we pay you to do!<BR/><BR/>This is what the YES vote to our last contract got us. And I am sure many of the teachers in this school voted YES to this one because they had no idea that the last contract put them in this situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166373341135829922006-12-17T11:35:00.000-05:002006-12-17T11:35:00.000-05:00Voila!Something along those lines would take years...Voila!<BR/><BR/>Something along those lines would take years to achieve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166340137040941702006-12-17T02:22:00.000-05:002006-12-17T02:22:00.000-05:00What we need is a new approach. 7637 people voted ...What we need is a new approach. 7637 people voted against this contract. While some of them may have voted no just to be contrary, a good number of them must be people who hate the UFT. We need to identify who those people are and reach out to them. Together we should all drop out of the UFT and become agency fee payers. Start our own union. We could distribute flyers in all the schools telling folks that we can do it better. We can put up a few bucks each and rent a place, get some phones put in. Then we can take turns volunteering after school every evening. When the members call with their problems about micromanaging principals or maternity leaves or the 37 1/2 minutes, we can fix the problems, and voila, take over from Unity.A Very Ice Ideanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166334290298139422006-12-17T00:44:00.000-05:002006-12-17T00:44:00.000-05:00Talking about spin, have you read the NY Teacher l...Talking about spin, have you read the NY Teacher lately?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166318462121036802006-12-16T20:21:00.000-05:002006-12-16T20:21:00.000-05:00The last anon isn't even in the classroom, what do...The last anon isn't even in the classroom, what do they care!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166314502844376612006-12-16T19:15:00.000-05:002006-12-16T19:15:00.000-05:00There is so much spin here that I have a bad case ...There is so much spin here that I have a bad case of vertigo.<BR/><BR/>Do you guys ever listen to yourselves?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166311865568564872006-12-16T18:31:00.000-05:002006-12-16T18:31:00.000-05:00Messages have been sent... teachers are ready for ...Messages have been sent... teachers are ready for change... Randi better get ready for battle... change is a comin'...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166310287122952042006-12-16T18:04:00.000-05:002006-12-16T18:04:00.000-05:00The contract that should have been voted down was ...The contract that should have been voted down was the last one.<BR/>If you really believed you were going to get anything back less than a year after such a massive score for the city than you need electro-shock.<BR/>The only vote that counts is the one that gets rid of Unity and I don't see any organized effort to get that message out to the members.<BR/>You wasted valuable time arguing about a contract that simply wasn't that important. I've read that you wanted to send a message -and you did- but I don't think it's the one that you intended.Max Factorhttp://www.theutp.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166288642188506402006-12-16T12:04:00.000-05:002006-12-16T12:04:00.000-05:00Onionproud said exactly what our own Union did to ...Onionproud said exactly what our own Union did to us. They scared us by telling us we had to vote yes or strike. There were no other options? You're such a loser. And those nitwits on Edwize supported the contract by telling us how great the provisions were on the 2005 contract. Listen to how these clowns laugh at as while we continue to work with all the lousy crap from 2005. Unity is patting itself on the back, congratulating themselves on how they again bamboozled their own members.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166287131021452002006-12-16T11:38:00.000-05:002006-12-16T11:38:00.000-05:00Go Unity. 90% show they support Randi. With New Ac...Go Unity. 90% show they support Randi. With New Action support that rises to 90.01%. On to victory in the elections. Let's get Kaufman and Eterno off the Executive Board and New Action to take their places so we can end the meetings quickly and get home early instead of their constant questionning of Randi's program.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1166286818853087462006-12-16T11:33:00.000-05:002006-12-16T11:33:00.000-05:007,637 rediculous people. And maybe a few more who ...7,637 rediculous people. And maybe a few more who didn't vote. Shame on ICE and TJC if they can't reach out to these people and create a base of operation against Unity. Otherwise, it's just spitting in the wind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com